How Owens Lake became a disaster and why it could — but need not — happen to the Great Salt Lake

Owens Lake shows just how bad things could get for Utah.

(Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District) A dust storm kicks up off the dry Owens Lake on May 25, 2012.

(Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District) A dust storm kicks up off the dry Owens Lake on May 25, 2012.

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